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Peter Thiel on government, progress, libertarianism with Niall ferguson

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Peter Thiel on government, progress, libertarianism with Niall ferguson

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you12 Posted: Fri, Jul 6 2012 2:12 PM

Pretty interesting. he does seem to back off a bit from libertarianism. Even talk about Ron paul at around 20 mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-rxtwhzcY

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Caley McKibbin replied on Sat, Jul 7 2012 1:35 AM

He's basically a technocratic social engineer that thinks libertarian flavoured policies sometimes help toward the Grand Vision.  But, the introductory remarks seem fitting because he is a lot more impressive than his gazillionaire counterparts, especially after I watched some videos of Mark Zuckerberg.

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